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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988

SIR DAVID SAID INGENIOUSLY THAT THERE PEOPLE COMING FROM THE SALIENT POINTS.

THE HON MARTIN LEE

RATHER HAD SUGGESTED WOULD BE TWO DIFFERENT CONSTITUENCIES FOR SAME DISTRICT. BUT HE HAD OVERLOOKED TWO

TO

THEIR

"FIRSTLY, THE DISTRICT BOARDS MAY ELECT CONSTITUENCIES MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF DISTRICT BOARDS.

ELECTIONS

AS

"SECONDLY, ALTHOUGH MR LEE HAS SUGGESTED THAT DIRECT

TO ATTRACT WHAT HE DESCRIBED IN THE CONSTITUENCIES ARE LIKELY

WITH AN 'HONG KONG MEMBERS', MAY BE

ELEMENT OF WISHFUL THINKING, SEEK THEIR VOTE FROM NEVERTHELESS THEY WILL NEED TO

THE DISTRICT

WHICH IN CONSTITUENCIES

STAND, AND THAT WILL BE THEIR

ELECTORATE."

THEY

REPLACEMENT, IN 1991, OF

DISTRICT-BASED

SIR DAVID SAID THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SEATS BY DIRECTLY ELECTED SEATS SHOULD NOT BE LOOKED AT IN ISOLATION.

VIEWED IN THE

CONTEXT

OF THE

AND

IT

BE SHOULD

OVERALL PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A MORE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RATIONALISATION OF THE THREE-TIER STRUCTURE.

SIR DAVID SAID MR SZETO'S AMENDMENT ALSO EXPRESSED REGRET ONLY 10 DIRECTLY ELECTED SEATS WOULD BE INTRODUCED IN 1991.

THAT

"A THEME WHICH HAS EMERGED FROM THIS DEBATE SO FAR IS THAT DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP IN 1991," HE SAID.

THE

AND NOT,

WILL

NOT,

"THE FINAL CHAPTER OF

THE WHITE

PAPER MAKES IT ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT THERE WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN 1991 AND 1997.

OF THE

"THE LATEST DRAFT

BASIC LAW CONTAINS A NUMBER OF OPTIONS FOR THE COMPOSITION OF THE FUTURE HONG KONG SAR LEGISLATURE.

"ALL OF THEM PROVIDE FOR AT LEAST 25 PER CENT OF THE LEGISLATURE TO BE DIRECTLY ELECTED.

OF THE MEMBERS

"THERE WILL THEREFORE BE ROOM TO INCREASE THE DIRECTLY ELEMENT IN THIS COUNCIL BETWEEN 1991 AND 1997.'

**

ELECTED

AGAINST THE EARLIER ON THE UNDESIRABILITY OF

ON FOCUSSING

PARTICULAR

IN SPEAKING SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY MR LEE, HE REMARKED AMENDMENT MOTIONS

EFFECT OF ASPECTS OF THE WHITE PAPER.

....

THE HAVING

'I MUST THEREFORE OPPOSE THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY MR SZETO THE SAME GROUNDS, HE SAID.

"

ON

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